New climate change hearings called by … Republicans?

posted at 11:01 am on August 25, 2013 by Jazz Shaw

Coming in September to a congressional chamber near you, (assuming you’re in DC) another round of hearings on climate change. But this one has a twist.

House Republicans have summoned the leaders of 13 federal agencies to a hearing next month to examine their plans to implement a sweeping climate change agenda that President Obama outlined in a June speech.

Organized by the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, the Sept. 18 hearing seeks information “from relevant federal agencies about U.S. climate change policies and the administration’s second-term climate agenda, and to obtain fuller information regarding the federal government’s past, current and planned domestic and international activities, climate research programs, initiatives, and new regulatory requirements,” said subcommittee Chairman Edward Whitfield (R-Ky.).

The laundry list of agencies summoned by Whitfield to testify is available at the link and it’s pretty much everyone in the upper levels of government outside of the military. The LA Times chooses to describe this as a final chance, “to wrest a measure of control over the administration’s climate change agenda” but I’m not sure that’s an accurate analysis. There’s no need to take control of the President’s climate agenda because it can’t be done, absent having a new president. But this could still be an important opportunity to expand the conversation, which has been almost entirely one sided to date.

Since the president came out with his call for “market-based legislation to reduce emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases” the committee has an opportunity to put an official spotlight on the first phrase in that requirement. The fact is, “market-based” and “reduce emissions” don’t generally collide in the same sentence, and this could be a chance to get all of the government experts to weigh in on exactly what the costs are, not only in direct federal dollars, but in jobs lost and increased prices at the pump and in taxpayers’ heating and utility bills. I get the feeling that Whitfield is playing a longer game here than some are giving him credit for.

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Each of them should have to prove that the facts set out there are incorrect, and if not they should not be allowed to proceed with the lies, fraud and baseless operations of wealth restribution they intend to use.

Of all the idiotic liberal pet projects/power grabs/con jobs, climate change has to be the most transparently absurd of all. If you can believe that liberal politicians, who cannot fix the nation’s economy, can steer the trajectory of the planet’s climate, you really will believe anything.

Al Gore and more than a few Hollywood types have the young and impressionable all riled up about “the environment” and they’re the ones who make the most noise to DC and get, eventually, all these scams going using everyone else’s money (and time and resources…and Rights).

Just make a big movie and claim ‘the end is near’ and it’s all because of hair spray and styrafoam cups and boats on the oceans and the heartache of all those “sea kittens”…and, presto, crises is “real”.

Being one who has studied biology, I was originally also drawn to alleged “environmental protection” groups until I devoted just a bit of time to look into who these groups actually are and what they’re up to. The Sierra Club, for starters and all the rest that are easily recognized today — front groups for a huge amount of media and money hustling for the DNC AND for Communist/Marxist goals among other things. It’s shocking when you look into them…

But most of college age youth and gullible, naive voters don’t look into them and they fund them out of outrage over trees being harvested and dirty streams and such that ARE or can be problems so these surface issues suck people in. And few look under the covers where these groups, and especially Al Gore, are concerned.

I was doing recycling and two 18 yr. old college age females approached for the same purpose and were congratulating one another loudly and proudly about the environmental groups they’d recently joined. You could tell they were rather wholesome girls and it was a shame to see them so gullible.

pretty much everyone in the upper levels of government outside of the military

The military is included, too. Here is the list from the link:

Whitfield has invited testimony from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of the Interior, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Defense, the Department of State, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Export-Import Bank of the U.S., the Office of Science and Technology, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

This should give the congress a very clear picture on where each department is headed in regards to climate change ‘mitigation’. I wonder if any of these agencies will turn down the invitation to give testimony. Either of their own accord, or at the behest of The One. He may not want to give congress a heads-up on anything he may have in mind for his control over the energy industry.

But that would be to place some faith in the GOP doing the right thing, and the well from whence I used to draw that faith is bone dry.

Midas on August 25, 2013 at 11:27 AM

I tend to doubt that even the GOP is stupid enough to think that there’s some upside to throwing in with the enviro-freaks. The reason that Gore and his clerics are getting so shrill of late is that science is catching up with their religion and people are leaving their church in droves.

OT – I believe that MSN reads your emails, too. My wife’s sister emailed people about attending Miss Saigon in DC in September. I didn’t do any internet search of Miss Saigon, so it isn’t Google. I only opened an email in on MSN with the header as Miss Saigon. They are at least reading the headers of my emails to push things my way, which is total BS!

THe GOP today has a lot in common with the US military of the late 1920s, directionless, leaderless, and mission-less, and a skeleton crew pretending to fight wood tanks with wood rifles, really a shadow of its former self.

While this could be an effort to identify and expose some of the excesses being pushed by the hard progressive Obama Administration – to the point of gaining ammunition to support turning off a lot of the funding to those initiatives in the next FY budget – what is sitting in the back of my mind the worry that this is just another case where the GOP has decided that being progressive-lite is the path they need to take to win elections.

This Administration has already established that they don’t care what the GOP House says or does – they will do what they want to do. The GOP House has already proven that beyond some bluster – they will not follow through on their threats – and when faced by extortion from the Democrats / Administration – they will surrender faster than the French did in June 1940.

“U.S. Rep. Ed Whitfield, (KY-01), Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Energy and Power, joined with several coal miners at the Equality Boot Surface Coal Mine this week to talk about President Obama’s efforts to eliminate coal production in America.

“If the President and his Administration were truly committed to making America a magnet for jobs, they would not be determined to hike electricity costs in the name of reducing carbon emissions, especially when man-made carbon only accounts for 3.8 percent of all global carbon emissions,” Whitfield said. “This will adversely affect everyday families and job creators alike, such as those working in the coal mines.”

Whitfield went on to say, “These are decisions that should be made in public with debate in the Unites States Congress”

“If the President and his Administration were truly committed to making America a magnet for jobs, they would not be determined to hike electricity costs in the name of reducing carbon emissions, especially when man-made carbon only accounts for 3.8 percent of all global carbon emissions,” Whitfield said. “This will adversely affect everyday families and job creators alike, such as those working in the coal mines.”

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It remains my contention that their estimates of our man-made carbon output is way high.

The persons at the very head of the “environmental panic” movement don’t care anyway, whether we’re causing the earth a problem, or not.

It remains my contention that their estimates of our man-made carbon output is way high.

The persons at the very head of the “environmental panic” movement don’t care anyway, whether we’re causing the earth a problem, or not.

Their agenda is to disable, and disolve these United States … period.

listens2glenn on August 25, 2013 at 1:17 PM

Just wait…now that the first round of industrial facilities have accounted for greenhouse gases in their Air Permits the enviros will be using their “potential to emit” numbers instead of what is actually occurring. PTE is generally based off of 8,760 hours of operation at maximum capacity. It is impossible to run at maximum for every hour of an entire year. Alas, if an industrial facility has been permitted for GHGs the enviros will be pointing to their “potential” to emit CO2 as what they are actually pumping out.

Lower level biology classes on the college level were instructing that another Ice Age was impending and that was several decades ago (at least) that that was the going science.

Ice Age, not Burn Age. Science has long argued out and proven that the Earth cools itself down once a greenhouse effect begins.

An Ice Age is caused by increased fresh water in the North Atlantic. It disturbs the ocean currents (less and less warm water is pushed into the North Atlantic from the South Atlantic/Caribbean) and the Earth begins to (rapidly) cool, then ices.

And at it’s worst, the process proceeds to a “snowball Earth” effect where the entire planet freezes over. Which HAS happened in the past and it’s proven science that it has.

So, all Al Gore’s creepy ranting about it getting hotter and hotter is misleading like just about everything else Gore says.

Like I said, as to academics, in REAL scientific academics, what’s accepted theory if not fact is that the Earth is in the early process of another Ice Age. That’s been taught in biology classes in college/universities for decades now. It’s just that Al Gore can’t make more millions if he lets that get out to the general public. And Sociology and Psychology and Women’s Studies majors don’t take those Biological Science classes….

“…and to obtain fuller information regarding the federal government’s past, current and planned domestic and international activities, climate research programs, initiatives, and new regulatory requirements,” said subcommittee Chairman Edward Whitfield (R-Ky.).

I actually think this is a great opportunity to debunk their junk science/Socialist agenda, but “fuller information“?????? Is that grammatically correct? I bet a gazillion whatevs the answer is: HELL NO.

Dear leader is runnin’ out of transforming time and must move faster. Hope the Farmers Almanac is correct about a really cold winter this year so the weather can blow some holes in this fraud. Guess I’d better get busy and cut some more fire wood.

The people of Tennessee have never questioned Gore’s intentions as they are very clear. What they do question is his sanity. Little known fact: If Gore had carried his home state of Tennessee in the 2000 presidential election, Florida’s vote would have been irrelevant and Gore would have been president. Thank you, Tennessee. Gore has always refused to present facts to support the lunacy of climate change. Instead, he just attacks by calling names and hurling insults. Sound familiar? He is living proof liberalism is a progressive mental disorder and he is in the latter stages.